Guigal Cotes du Rhone 2000

Tonight, we uncorked a bottle of Guigal Cotes du Rhone (Grenache Shiraz) 2000 vintage.
Eight years on - Pretty good. We enjoyed it.
The wine tasted dusty with flavours of Aniseed, white pepper, clove and cinnamon.
It was pretty tight at first, but when it opened up, it had a lucious warm and that typical Cotes du Rhone pencil shaving characters.
It probably had the potential to go for another 2 years, but we enjoyed it superbly with a "Norwegian Nachos" dish we invented tonight.
I have tried several vintages of this wine over the years and believe it to be a good value example of France's famous Cotes du Rhone region.

Current vintage probably retail around $30 (AUD).

Norwegian Nachos ala Liquid Dining (the lazy Friday night dinner)

Spanish onions, garlic, kidney beans, tomatoes, can of sardines, salt, white & black pepper, coriander, cumin, papprika.
Served with Jatz crackers.